Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xm8r8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-21T04:56:09.607Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

First Amendment Blues: On Downs, Nazis in Skokie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Get access

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Review Symposium: The ACLU and Politics; the Politics of the ACLU
Copyright
Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1986 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Collin v. Smith, 447 F. Supp. 676 (N.D. III. 1978) (emphasis added).Google Scholar

2 Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, 69 111. 2d 605, 373 N.E.2d 21, 22 (1978).Google Scholar

3 A year or two after the Skokie events, the New York Times, Jan. 12, 180, at 7, col. 6, reported that Frank Collin had been expelled from the American Nazi party after his arrest for illicit intercourse with minors and the use of Nazi headquarters in Chicago for purposes of sodomy with children. The report indicated that the Nazis tipped the police who arrested Collin.Google Scholar

4 Village Ordinance no. 77–5-N-994 requires permit applicants to obtain 300,000 in liability insurance and 50,000 in property damage insurance.Google Scholar

5 Village Ordinance No. 77–5-N-996.Google Scholar

6 Village Ordinance no. 77–5-N-995, £ 28–45.2.Google Scholar

7 Hamlin, David, Swastikas and Survivors: Inside the Skokie-Nazi Free Speech Case, Civ. Lib. Rev., March/April 1978, at 8, 22.Google Scholar

8 Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart, 427 U.S. 539, 559 (1976).Google Scholar

9 National Socialist Party v. Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977).Google Scholar

10 Village of Skokie v. National Socialist Party of America, 51 111. App. 3d 279, 293, 366 N.E.2d 347 (1977).Google Scholar

11 Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568, 572 (1942). see also California, Cohen v., 403 U.S. 15, 20 (1971).Google Scholar

12 Norwell v. Cincinnati, 414 U.S. 14 (1973). But see Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 934 (1949).Google Scholar

13 69 III. 2d at 619, 373 N.E.2d, at 26.Google Scholar

14 Collin v. Smith, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, No. 78–1385; Smith v. Collin, U.S. Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, No. 78–1381; May 22, 1978, at 4–5.Google Scholar

15 447 F. Supp. 676 (N.D. 111. 1978).Google Scholar

16 578 F. 2d 1197 (7th Cir. 1978).Google Scholar

17 Smith v. Collin, 439 U.S. 916 (1978).Google Scholar

18 69 111. 2d at 615, 373 N.E. 2d at 24.Google Scholar

19 439 U.S. at 919, quoting Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 52 (1919).Google Scholar

20 Goldberger, David, Would You Defend an Unpopular Cause? On Defending Nazis, Barrister, Winter 1977, at 47.Google Scholar

22 578 F.2d at 1205–6.Google Scholar

23 Goldberger, supra note 20.Google Scholar

24 N.Y. Times, Mar. 20, 1978, at A20, col. 3; id. Mar. 27, 1978, at A18, col. 5.Google Scholar

25 Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 47, 52 (1919).Google Scholar

26 Meiklejohn, Alexander, Political Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).Google Scholar

27 Emerson, Thomas I., Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment (New York: Random House, 1966).Google Scholar

28 Irving Louis Horowitz & Victoria Curtis Bramson, Skokie, the ACLU, and the Endurance of Democratic Theory, 43 Law & Contemp. Probs. 328 (1979).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

29 Elazar, Daniel J., Community and Polity: The Organizational Dynamics of American Jewry (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1976).Google Scholar

30 Kirschner, Robert, ed., Rabbinic Response of the Holocaust Era (New York: Schocken Books, 1985).Google Scholar

31 Helmreich, William B., The World of the Yeshiva (New York: Free Pres, 1982).Google Scholar

32 Whitfield, Stephen J., Jews in American Life and Thought (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books/ Shoe String Press, 1984).Google Scholar

33 Glazer, Nathan, American Judaism (2d ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972).Google Scholar

34 Hamlin, David, The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Struggle (Boston: Beacon Press. 1980).Google Scholar